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Asian Visions Film Festival :
TSAI MING-LIANG
June 29 – July 2, 2010
UPFI Videotheque
Rebels of the Neon God
June 29 / Tue / 5pm
UPFI Videotheque
Golden Horse Film Festival 1992, Golden Horse Award Best Original Score
Tokyo International Film Festival 1993, Bronze Award
Torino International Festival of Young Cinema 1993, Prize of the City of Torino Best Film – International Feature Film Competition
Synopsis:
Rebels of the Neon God (Taiwanese: Ch’ing shaonien ne cha, literally Teenaged Nezha) is a 1992 Taiwanese film by Tsai Ming-liang. It is his first full-length film. It tells two stories of Taipei youth. One details alienated buxiban student Hsiao Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) and his troubled interactions with his family. The other shows two petty hoods, Ah Tze and Ah Bing, along with Ah Kuei, Tze’s erstwhile girlfriend. An idle act of violence brings the two groups into collision, and an act of revenge at the end completes the circle. It is a story of troubled youth, dissatisfaction, and the alienating effect of urban life.
Much of Rebels of the Neon God is filmed in various arcades and malls in Taipei and on the streets of the city with hand-held cameras. It is filmed in a much more naturalistic manner than some of Tsai’s later work.
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La flaqueza del Bolchevique “The Weakness of the Bolshevik”
Film in Spanish with English subtitles
Fecha/Date: February 27, 2010
Hora/Time: 6:00 PM
Lugar/Venue: Instituto Cervantes
Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca
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Obaba
Film in Spanish with English subtitles
Fecha/Date: February 20, 2010
Hora/Time: 6:00 PM
Lugar/Venue: Instituto Cervantes
Director: Montxo Armendáriz
Duración/Duration: 100 mins.
Producción/Production: España, 2005
Intérpretes/Cast: Bárbara Lennie, Juan Diego Botto, Pilar López De Ayala, Eduard Fernández, Peter Lohmeyer, Mercedes Sampietro, Héctor Colomé, Pepa López, Txema Blasco, Juan Sanz, Iñake Irastorza, Lluís Homar, Ramón Barea
Lourdes emprende un viaje hacia los territorios de Obaba. En su equipaje lleva una cámara de vídeo con la que quiere atrapar la realidad de Obaba y sus gentes. Pero Obaba no es el lugar que Lourdes ha imaginado, y pronto descubre que …
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La Celestina “Celestina”
Film in Spanish with English subtitles
Sólo para Adultos – For Adults Only
Fecha/Date: February 13, 2010
Hora/Time: 6:00 PM
Lugar/Venue: Instituto Cervantes
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La luz prodigiosa/The End of a Mystery
Film in Spanish with English subtitles
Fecha/Date: February 6, 2010
Hora/Time: 6:00 PM
Lugar/Venue: Instituto Cervantes
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The film chronicles the relationship and lack of communication between the narrator, who is a single mother and pragmatic middle-aged professor of physics, and her moody adolescent daughter during the Cuban economic crisis known as the Special Period.
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Fallen Gods is Cuba’s official submission to 82nd Academy Award’s Foreign Language in 2010. It narrates a story about a university professor named Laura who is researching on a famous Cuban pimp. Wishing to demonstrate the relevance of this legendary character, she enters one of the most complex realities of today’s Havana.